Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20

"N'N 49, lh'' - hN'hf -" Nv
braska City, registered and paid as the books
show, has turned ~ In the hands OF an IN.
nocent holder. The sm0unt is only about
400, but fears thar others OF larger amounts
are ont in the same way.
The eleventh annual holiness state camp
meeting was successfully ~inaugurated al Ben
net Wednesday. Two services were held, fore
noon and afternoon, but the session was for
mally opened at night by President Miller,
Evangelist Bell preaching a short sermon. A
large number have arrived from all direction 8,
mostly the north. Sixty.fve tents are already
Warden Flyers, Of the state peuitentiary
Wednesday brought White Water, al old Int
dian ~convIct, In to be examined By the per-
SION agents. White Water is an old Indian
chief who is serving out q life sentence fer
numbering a white man. During the war he
served I'm the union army, and draws a pen
sion OF g per month. lie now makes appli-
cation for an increase.
Valentine special, Aug. s: Mrs. General
kautz, who was thrown from q carriage Sat-
urday while returning from the races with
Lieutenant HstchesCn, having her leg broken
above and below the knee and sustaining
other injuries, is lying In a precar!ous condt.
tion. Lieutenant Hutcheson Is much biam. 1
by the officers Of the post, al the team he VI S
driving had ran away twice before.
High society in Holdrege has been shock
and the moral atmosphere tainted by tie
beastiality OF q prominent citizen named g.
Q. Charleston. He is accused by Helena A.
dersor with being the father OF her chil :,
with shipping Der out of town to avoid dis.
grace and with final abandonment amone
strangers. She was found by her mother IA
Hastings, where Charleston had left her per-
niless.
Grand Island Is threatened with q belt rai-
road. The Union Pacific Is considering t..
scheme, and also the establishment OF stock
yards at that point. Ii is said that the latter
Improvement is settled and plans adopted for
yards capable OF handling and feeding all the
stock offered. These Improvement viii give
the metropolis Of Hall a boost 10 the front
that viii make the eyes Of Hastings bulge
out.
The deadly feud between the gun and the
small boy Is spreading with the approach of
the hunting season. Every week brings the
sharp crack of unloaded weapons, Academia
discharges, desolated homes and fresh
mounds In the cemetery. Norfolk scores the
latest victim. The proud father OF Charley
Ward, a fourteen-yesr-old, recently presented
him with "a target rifle, and on Saturday the
boys had an exhibition shoot, Milton Record
VAS chose n for the sacrifice by being posted
near the target. As soon as he got within
range the gun accidentally went of as usual,
and in twenty minutes be was a corpse.
Another shooting affair occurred on Main
street, Nebraska City, Wednesday evening.
The cause leading thereto is sid 10 be a
prominent grocer named L.. W. ii yd, who
has a number Of times insulted aud made IN
decent proposals to his lady customers. IFS
last break was, so II Is SAID at the wife Ct
Mr.. Samuel Chaplin, who went 30 the store 10
call him 20 account for 1t. Lloyd struck
Chaplin several times across the face with a
whip, whereupon the latter drew a revolver
and shot Lloyd throu4h the aeshy part Of his
arm. Both parties were arrested, Lloyd be-
ing let off with a fine OF 81 and costs, while
Chaplin was bound over for hearing. Lloyd
says he is innocent of the charge Of insult.
For some time past a bit OF gossip and
scandal has been in circulation at Platte Gen.
ter over a rumor which eliminated Thursday
Ia the arrest OF DR.. Hamilton Mead, a prom.-
nent physician Of the place, on a charge of
adultery with Miss Kate Duffy, a young lady
about twenty years OF age. Che was highly
respected and was regarded as a model Of vir.
tue and circumspeetion. AS soon as the doe
tor was placed under arrest Miss Duffy took
the train and went on TO Omaha. There is
great excitement over the affair as DR.. Mead
is married 10 a most estimable lady and the
opinion prevails that undue means have been
resorted to to procure the ruin and disgrace
OF Miss Duffy. She is one OF q family Of six
grown up girls that have always been reput-
able, Industrious and intelligent, supporting
themselves as teachers, ~dressmakers ana mill
liners.
Dick Foster, whose pardon and death the
Omaha Bee made mention Of several days
ago, was sent up Tor life from Otoe county in
1870 for the murder Of 81 Davis, y negro. some
time during 1869. Durirg the day Of the
murder Davis and Foster were engaged in q
game Of poker In q room at the rear OF
the Old News building, which ended
in a %quarre!. After separating Davis walked
up the street and met several women
and returned with them down town, passing
Foster, and as they did so Davis i,stled the
women ~ against Foster, who instantly drew
a revolver and pointed 1t at Davis, who re-
marked with a defiant laugh that he "ate
those things every morning for breakfast"
Foster replying ''then eat this" and shot
him dead. He then walked l.isuTely up the
street, cracking q whip which be carried, and
was surprised when arrested for "simpiy XII.
ling a niger" His petition for n pardon
has been before every governor since that
time-Nance ard Dawes both having made
promises az q favorable consideration OF his
case though they were never fulfilled.